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Published by Wesleyan University Press, Middletown, CT 06459 www.wesleyan.edu/wespress© 1993 by Cynthia Carr Revised edition © 2008 by Cynthia Carr All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America 5 4 3 2 1 Library of Congress Control Number: 2008924527 ISBNS for the revised edition: ISBN-13:978-o-8195-6888-5 ISBN-lO: 0-8195--6888--0 "This Is Only a Test" and "Trying Times" first appeared in ARTFORUM (© ARTFORUM, September 1989; © ARTFORUM, September 1990). "With Mapplethorpe in Cincinnati" first appeared in the L. A. Weekly. The remaining essays first appeared in The Village Voice. The Library of Congress has cataloged the original edition as follows: LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA Carr, C. On edge: performance at the end of the twentieth centuryI by C. Carr. p. cm. Includes index. ISBN 0-8195-5267-4. - ISBN 0-8195--6269--6 (pbk.) 1. Performance art-United States. 2. Arts, Modem20th century-United States. 1. Title. NX504·c37 1994 700'·973'09045-dc20 93-8182 ggreen Wesleyan University Press is a member of the press Green Press Initiative. The paper used in this book I NIT I A T I V E meets their minimum requirement for recycled paper. ...

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